20 interesting facts about salt

Today we go to know interesting and fun facts about salt so, continue reading this article for knowing these facts that you now heard before now

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Tasty facts about salt

#1.  Salt was considered so valuable in    ancient Rome that soldiers were sometimes paid with it.

#2.  In fact the word salary is derived from the Latin word for salt, "sal".

#3.  Salt was so expensive in the middle ages, it was referred to as "white gold".

#4.  Hindi 1800s salt was 4x is costly as brief in the American Frontier.

#5.  Until the 20th century one pound bars of salt were used as currency in Ethiopia.

#6.  A 2012 study on sodium levels on fast food concluded Pizza, not French fries are the biggest culprit of salt consumption. But salt is great for body in the right dose.

#7.  It helps the transport of Oxygen and nutrients and allows nerves to transmit messages.

#8.  The world's largest salt flat is located in Bolivia and stretches 4,000 square miles.

#9.  When covered with a thin layer of water, the salt flat takes on a mirror like quality. The reflective makes it incredibly useful to calibrate great scientific equipment in outer space.

#10. The dead sea is 10th times saltier than sea water, but it is still only the 5th saltiest body of water. The Don Juan Pond, a 10 centimetre in Antarctica. The salinity is so high that is rarely freezes.

#11. Black salt is made in India be combining salt water with harad seeds. Once it evaporates, it leaves behind black blocks of salt.

#12. Guerande, France still produces salt the produces salt the same way as the ancient Celts.

#13. They carefully strain sea water with baskets to create the very high and Fleur De Sel, this high and salt is only sprinkled on food before bring served and never used in cooking.

#14. Amethyst bamboo 9x salt costs $395 a pound, making it probably the most expensive in the world.

#15. The pricey salt is made by roasting korean gray sea salt nine times inside an aged bamboo pole at over 1,400F.

#16. Mixing salt in with the water of cut flowers in a vase will help the flowers live longer.

#17. You can test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water. Fresh eggs will sink and bad eggs will float.

#18. Only 6% of the salt that we use in the United States is used as food.  It is used for many other reasons.  In fact, 17% is used for keeping ice off of roads in the winter.

#19. If you soak older, wrinkled apples in a mixture of salt and water, the wrinkles will go away.

#20. Salt (sodium chloride) It is the only family of rocks regularly eaten by people.